--- title: 'You must go up and bow low before her,' whispered the mother to her… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'You must go up and bow low before her,' whispered the mother to her children, nodding her head in the direction of the old lady, 'and keep your legs well apart, as you see me do. Who acts: You, me. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/) / 5 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 5 'You must go up and bow low before her,' whispered the mother to her children, nodding her head in the direction of the old lady, 'and keep your legs well apart, as you see me do. **Who acts:** You, me · **What happens:** go up, bow, whisper, nod, keep, see · **To what, where:** mother, children, head, legs, me This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:9:5 # text = 'You must go up and bow low before her,' whispered the mother to her children, nodding her head in the direction of the old lady, 'and keep your legs well apart, as you see me do. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 nodding nod VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 apart apart ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | must | You | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **bow** | present | You *not said here* | | | | before duck | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | | the mother | duck's children | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Topic to child=Recipient | | 4 | **nod** | gerund | | duck's head | | | | in the direction of the old lady | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in direction=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | You *not said here* | your legs | | | | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 6 | **see** | present | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/)